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we kindness from strangers, which we call un—people are still laughing in here. not at yourjokes, mate. 0h, lord, this is getting out of hand. this week, it is a special thank you to the community from the family of a young deaf boy who was beaten you know, this is a really divided time and part of the court's strength and part of its legitimacy depends on people not seeing the court in the way that people see the rest of the governing structures of this country, now. in other words, thinking of them as not politically divided in the same way, and not an extension of politics, but instead, somehow above the fray. facebook wants you to put one of these devices into your home. hey, portal. you can use the portalto call other portal owners, or those using facebook‘s messenger app. it has an ultraviolet high—definition camera that is capable of tracking you as you move around the room. you can see the camera is perfectly framing me, naturally panning and zooming. facebook has been developing the portal for the zooming. facebook has been developing the portalfor the past 18 months. in that time, the firm's reputation has been turned upside down with the huge data breach scandal and last month's hacking attack which hit at least 50 million facebook users. why should people trust facebook to put this kind of device into their homes? well, we have to find privacy from the ground up. the fact that we were able to build from the hardware and software the technology that we show you, we
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have put privacy on every layer of this. facebook is obviously an advertising business, so are you going to use this screen to put advertising people's homes? no. that's not really the plan. we but governments will have to act too. the new research says we need to reduce warming by even more than was previoulsy thought and that will cost money. donald trump says the sex assault claims made against his new supreme court justice brett kava naugh were "all made up". also on the programme: turkey has asked for permission to search the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul following the reports that saudi journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered in the building last week. and how much do you trust facebook? enough to put a camera in your home? the social media giant has just released its new portal — complete with a wide angle lens that will follow you around the room. hello and welcome — i'm katty kay in washington and christian fraser is in london. and there's no avoiding the costs — scientists say we either invest now to clamp down on greenhouse gases or we pay later for the enormous climatic changes that will come. a three year long study says we need an extraordinary change of direction, from governments and individuals to limit the damage. the un report urges changes to our transportation, to our diet and to the way we produce and consume energy. it will also demand a vast increase in the emerging technologies that
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can remove carbon dioxide from the air. if we don't do all this, then by 20a0, there will be drought and flooding with enormous loss of life. here's our science editor david shukman. the warming of the earth is heading for levels that modern humans have never experienced. that's the unnerving implication of this latest report. it says the rise of the oceans could accelerate, even with what sounds like a small increase of temperature. heatwaves are set to become more intense sooner than expected. and forest fires combined with more warming will have a profound impact on wildlife. the report clearly shows... the report was unveiled at a press conference here in south korea, and came with a startling conclusion. if action is not taken, it will take the planet into and an unprecedented climate future if we compare it to what has happened during all of human evolutionary history. the report says massive cuts are needed in the gas is warming the atmosphere. that means turning away from fossil fuels, like oil, because when they are burned, they give off carbon dioxide.
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fast new forests must also be planted to soak up the gas, to have any chance of keeping global warming to a safe level. the obvious question that arises from the radical suggestions in this report is any of this remotely feasible? so many countries depend on call, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels, and have plans to use more of it, and the vast majority of vehicles on the world use petrol and diesel. on the other hand, there are some significant developments under way, the cost of renewable energy, like solar and wind is falling, making it much more viable. and electric cars are set to become more mainstream as major car manufacturers invest in them. but however this plays out, making a change on this scale is going to be a huge challenge. the key decisions on this now passed the countries that are the biggest polluters,
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like china and the united states. but the report also says, the people going about their everyday life have a say, as well. we can all make choices about the energy we choose to consume. so we can make a move, through our choices of energy consumption to renewable energy to provide the market for renewable energy. in terms of land, a lot of the land we use produces food, so we can make choices, dietary choices about what we choose to eat. around the conference centre, new skyscrapers and highways crawling with traffic, all this relies on fossil fuels, and like many developments around the world, it will be incredibly hard to change. the scientists here have mapped out a way of minimising global warming. we will now see what everyone makes of it. as david mentioned in his report, the two biggest emitters of carbon dioxide are china and the united states.
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china tops the list with 29% of global emissions. the united states 14% — the european union 10%. all together they account for more than half the world's carbon emissions so unless there is a huge response from those three powers, and we should probably throw in india, one of the worlds fastest growing economies, there's no chance of meeting the un's ambitious targets. joining me now is christiana figueres, founder of the think tank global optimism and former head of the un climate change negotiations that led to the 2015 paris accord. judy. what is particularly stark about this report and the language that they use, is it directs us to the problem within our generation. this is not two lifetimes away, this is within 20 years, so why are our politicians so short term. politicians are short—term because they leads their life according to political cycles and electoral
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cycles which tend to be rather short term. i think in the big scheme of things, climate change is inviting humanity to begin to change its mental chip about how we make decisions. climate change is not good to be the last global problem that we will face this century which requires long—term thinking and short—term acting. and so, actually, it isa short—term acting. and so, actually, it is a very interesting playground fast to begin to learn to do things differently than what we have done in the past. anti-work together, -- and to work together, so universally, do we need to treat it ina universally, do we need to treat it in a different way, but environment which has always been a fringe political issue right next door to the finance ministry said that they used to big officers are working together. two ideas in your statement. i think the first is to ta ke statement. i think the first is to take it out of your partisan politics box. when it comes to deciding on the fate of humanity, thatis deciding on the fate of humanity,
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that is not partisan politics. that is actually moral responsibility. of eve ryo ne is actually moral responsibility. of everyone who is in any leadership capacity. and the second, about the finance. i think it is also time to realise that addressing climate, of course it is good to take on investment, what doesn't? but it is actually the investment with a highest rate of return from a global economy perspective, because by investing in climate change, we are going to be reaping at least 20— $26 trillion in economic growth, and we are going to be creating 65 million newjobs. now, in a world in which young people in particular are very concerned about their jobs, disappearing in front of them, because of automation, and robots, what can be better news than the creation of 65 million newjobs, because it is such a new sector, so actually, this is a huge opportunity, and we have to see it as such. i love your optimism. i am sitting here in optimism and my —— washington and my heart is thinking,
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because you talked about two things that i did see happening, politics here is becoming more partisan and more divided on the issue of climate change, and the argument that this isa change, and the argument that this is a financial opportunity, the 0bama administrative and try to make that and didn't succeed. the finances of climate still wrapped up in the oiland finances of climate still wrapped up in the oil and industries, and they all lobbying powers over politicians here in the united states. is there anything that makes you optimistic that the world second largest polluter could move in the right direction. yes, i do titley recognise where the white house is on this, what they are rolling back. rigidly understand that. i am not being ignorant blind to that reality. but, there is another reality. but, there is another reality with it is equally and perhaps even more powerful in the united states, and that is the radzi of the real economy in the united states, that it is actually moving forward with decarbonisation. you have a sizeable number of states, a growing number of states, 300 cities
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by last count, 12 states by last count, thousands of universities, and civil societies, and institutions and banks that are actually moving to a deep carbonised their products and services, and they are doing that, maybe to save they are doing that, maybe to save the planet, but they are doing it because it is in their interest. if you are a male of a city, you will have a much more liveable city. you are going to have better at quality. that is why they are doing it. and so, everybody is really understanding that this is an enlightened self interest, and savages is quite a driving force. thank you for coming in. this will depress you. france and... france and italy have sent two vessels to help contain an oil spill spreading in the mediterranean after two cargo ships collided off corsica. the two countries are expected to send a further two
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boats to the scene. the accident occurred yesterday and caused a fuel tank to begin leaking into a nearby marine reserve. it's produced an oil slick estimated to be about twenty kilometres long. we talked there are about what policymakers can do, part of this report looks at what we can do as individuals. you, my green friend in london, have been trying to take a leaf out of their book, and it is not as easy as you think? it's not. i have a car which fred vinson would be proud of, and it has been guzzling gas so long. —— fred flintstone. we bought a new car, and his eighth fully electric car. 0n the journey to norfolk, his eighth fully electric car. 0n thejourney to norfolk, we his eighth fully electric car. 0n the journey to norfolk, we thought we would see whether we could pull in 90 miles into thejourney we would see whether we could pull in 90 miles into the journey and find somewhere to charge it, could we? know. we couldn't. so that is very much the problem. we will talk
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about it literally programme. 5000 new cars come onto the road that is electric every month, but there are not 5000 charging sectors, so the private sector is good to need a big leg up from the government if this is good to work. i can't park a car anywhere near my house, so how would i park it if i had to think about the cables. all of those things have got to be addressed and we need to got to be addressed and we need to go back to policymakers. got to be addressed and we need to go back to policymakerslj got to be addressed and we need to go back to policymakers. i e-mailed the council today and they said they would put one in my street when they could afford it, and then how long before someone would see me when they trip over my charging cable on their way to the shops if i install one myself. but at least the fli ntstone one myself. but at least the flintstone car is gone. republicans are taking a victory lap today after getting brett kava naugh confirmed to the supreme court. getting a conservative on to the highest court in the land was perhaps the single biggest priority of this administration.
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but here's the political twist. mr trump know that people are more likely to vote when they are angry than when they are satisfied, so today he was keeping the kavanaugh fight alive. on his way to an event in florida, mr trump warned of the costs if democrats win the mid term elections. i've been hearing that they've been thinking about impeaching a man who did nothing wrong, a man that was caught up in a hoax that was set up by the democrats, using the democrats' lawyers, and now they want to impeach him. i've heard this from many people. i think it is an insult to the american public, and i think you will see a lot of things happening on november six that would not have happened before. the problem is the supreme court is meant to stay above politics and this whole confirmation saga hasn't helped that. now there is concern among the eight colleagues mr kavanaugh isjoining, that the court has not been well served by the events of the past fortnight. you know, this is a really divided time and part of the court's strength and part of its legitimacy depends on people not seeing
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the court in the way that people see the rest of the governing structures of this country, now. in other words, thinking of them as not politically divided in the same way, and not an extension of politics, but instead, somehow above the fray. let's speak to kim wehle who's a professor of law at the university of baltimore and who has worked with brett kavanaugh in the past. how worried are you about the impact that this might have had on the trust about the supreme court and its impartiality? i am to be worried about it. i was worried about it,... essentially, by definition, the democrats are not part of this process , democrats are not part of this process, and it only escalated with
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judge—mac one's performance following ford's testimony, when these people are on the life is deeply damaging, notjust in the supreme court, but to the whole democratic process. we have seen institution at institution you lose that the public‘s trust. the supreme court's power depends on having that fast, so what can it do now going forward now thatjustice kavanaugh is one of the nine supreme court justice. what can they do to reassure the public that they are working on law and not politics?m boils down to the chiefjustice, soon—to—be justice kavanaugh, i suspect, thatjudge—mac one kevin a lot about his reputation, which has taken quite a beating in the last few weeks. if the courts can operate above politics, and not have such
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divided decisions, then we will... a conservative court coming in, bending it, those kinds of things, and of course, busy the hot button issues, first and second amendment, and the abortion issue, to have a moderate type approach to these issues, and half the publisher which of course is women, and applications on individual rights rather than in a partisan way, because reading because it usually is not a black and white exercise. whoever tells you that is not telling you the truth. some of this comes down to the languid of the president. i was looking at the pictures of the protesters. the they are most the women, donald trump described them asa women, donald trump described them as a left—wing mob. he did not use that sort of land was when he was driving the charlottesville protesters. yes, this president understands that by whipping up
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factions, that gives him powers, and by making statements that are in accurate, that gives him power. the american government is not a direct democracy, it is a republic, and in that instance it is up to congress to step in and be a grown—up in the rome, to be a more bipartisan approach, but the many reasons, which is why i agree with patti's summary which is why i agree with patti's summary that in america because jewellers in deep crisis. thank you very much for coming in. the turkish president is weighing in on the case of the saudi journalist who appears to have disappeared inside the saudi consulate in istanbul. mr erdogan turkey sounds incredulous of saudi claims thatjamal khashoggi walked out of the consulate last week safe and sound. the reporter, a fierce critic of the saudi regime, was last seen visiting the consulate on tuesday. turkish authorities reportedly believe he was murdered inside the building.
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we'rejoined by ian black, senior fellow at the lse‘s middle east centre and former middle east editor of the guardian. did you come across jamal khashoggi quite a lot? i did. he was somebody that you came across him if you worked in the middle east, quite a lot. he was a very articulate man. and obviously, i think anybody who knows him wants to know what his fate was, and also there are indications that go far beyond any personal ties, as well. the president of turkey is currently in budapest. they were asked what they know about his fate, and the point that the president is making is why don't you produce the video, let's see him walk out the building. don't you produce the video, let's see him walk out the buildinglj think there is no doubt that what we
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have to do is find out what actually happened. this is a highly toxic issue. the charges an extremely serious one. the political background is very volatile, and the sta kes a re background is very volatile, and the stakes are high. it seems to me that we just need to find out what happened to this man whose movements we re happened to this man whose movements were known before he entered that building, before... there is a urgency to it and it is creating privileges and concern, rightfully. what are the specific issues with which jamal khashoggi has angered the current regime in saudi arabia? jamal khashoggi has been around a long time. he is a long—standing feature of the saudi and media landscape. he has worked for many different papers. he has worked in the government, as well. he is not a radical or extremist in there. he has done, one quite sensitive job
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for the government, but he has or has been quite critical, he is or has been quite critical, he is or has been quite critical, he is or has been independent, he has is ups and downs, but he made it known a year ago that he felt in the current climate he could no longer stay and speak freely and write freely in saudi arabia and he relocated to washington where he has been producing a column in the washington post. obviously, an extremely important global platform. and i think that if you speculate about how he might have annoyed the saudi government, then you have to look at that. he is an incredible voice, enormously potent changes are taking place in saudi arabia, inside the —— they have devoted enormous efforts to improving the crown prince, framing him as a modernist,... jamal khashoggi has been critical of that,
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but he defines himself not as a dissident, he calls himself a saudi patriot. there is rightly global concern about what has happened to him. we should notjump to conclusions, but clearly we need to know what has become of him. the white house have not yet spoken about this, but the state department saying they are not in a pollution to confirm the reports, but they are close to following the situation. —— closely following the situation. the social media giant facebook is entering the world of hardware and is taking a seat in our living rooms. today the company has unveiled a device called portal that allows users to video chat with one another. and the most intriguing feature is that the camera follows you around and keeps you in focus. but the launch comes at a time when facebook has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons — just a few weeks ago the company revealed that at least 50 million users had their accounts hacked. so how is facebook addressing our privacy concerns with this new device? the bbc‘s dave lee has more.
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facebook wants you to put one of these devices into your home. hey, portal. you can use the portal to call other portal owners, or those using facebook‘s messenger app. it has an ultraviolet high—definition camera that is capable of tracking you as you move around the room. you can see the camera is perfectly framing me, naturally panning and zooming. facebook has been developing the portalfor the past 18 months. in that time, the firm's reputation has been turned upside down with the huge data breach scandal and last month's hacking attack which hit at least 50 million facebook users. why should people trust facebook to put this kind of device into their homes? well, we have to find privacy from the ground up. the fact that we were able to build from the hardware and software the technology that we show you, we have put privacy on every layer of this. facebook is obviously an advertising business,
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so are you going to use this screen to put advertising people's homes? that's not really the plan. we don't think we can get much value, neither to our users that way. facebook has had a year of security and privacy scandals. it means the company is being investigated by multiple agencies in multiple countries around the world. those investigations are all asking the same question, can facebook be trusted with our data? privacy campaigners say a new device is not the direction facebook should be taking. because it brings facebook right into your home, looking at you, every day. we don't know too much about what information facebook is going to retain from these devices. the only thing that companies could be sure about is that somehow the device is going to be hacked. we have seen it over and over again. the company hope this product will be seen as a fun way to communicate with friends
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and family, using apps like this one, which features facial recognition. much like the big bad wolf, facebook appears very keen to get into your home. dave lee, bbc news, san francisco. i heard this, and thought where will i want to get that. and then puppy comes in and says, ma'am, there's this recording called portal. she looked at me like i am a martian, "why would you care about privacy? p°ppy "why would you care about privacy? poppy thinks that facebook is a bit ofan poppy thinks that facebook is a bit of an old thing for old people like you and me. when it this time, i was put the kids on, but now it is going to follow me back, so you can't hide. no escaping. we will
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have the full fraser effect in his own home. but what happens at the same thing happens with alexa happened, so you are sitting there in the front room, and it these turns on, and suddenly she starts talking. yeah, there is a mother—in—law. they say that imitation is the best form of flattery. not we're not sure whether this is an insult or a compliment butjean claudejuncker has been mimicking theresa may ahead of a speech in brussels. take a look at this mrjuncker appears to be busting out the maybot. the navtej i thought he had sciatica. do not. the moves look like an attempt to copy the prime minsiter‘s performance to abba's dancing queen as she arrived for her speech at the tory conference last week.
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i think she does a lot better than he does. i have a theory about this. i thinkjean—claude juncker was being a bit mean. i think there is quite a lot of mean is over both sides of the atlantique. we have had a lot of travelling from both sides of the political side. we have got... george w bush said, when you are in the end zone, don't do a dance in the end zone to celebrate a victory, it like you have been there before. i think what he was saying was be gracious. i'm not sure that was be gracious. i'm not sure that was very basis. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news — as we are warned that we all need to take decisive action to limit global warming, we'll find out what it's like to ditch your petrol car for an electric number.
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and last night a far—right candidate won the first round of brazil's presidential elections. commentators are calling it a seismic shift — we'll be asking why. that's still to come. hello, there are warm and sunny days to come this week. today, if good deal of cloud around. here is the view from dabour charlie. many of us staying dry, but it is not the case particularly through western and north—western areas of scotland. heavy and persistent rain continues there. before this eases, there will be over 200 millimetres of rain. risk of flooding. some heavy rain here overnight, patchy rain elsewhere in scotland, with parts of scotland... there were particular use cold, some spots just dipping down into single figures. into tomorrow, still rain falling,
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through bytyqi north—west scotland. rather patchy elsewhere in scotland, it eases through northern ireland, and any early rain clears from north—west england. lee is a lot of england and wales with some sunshine in the afternoon, plenty of sunshine through wales before the end of the day, though patchy cloud in northern england. a one day if you get some sunshine, but blustery. some gusts 40-50 sunshine, but blustery. some gusts 40—50 mph in the northern parts of the uk. tuesday evening, the rain will start to edge a little further north, and that is this weather front finally retreating, going into wednesday. leaving all of us a warm flow of it, —— air, with pledges such, as well. the rain lifting away, the last of it from the western isles onto wednesday morning. land visible here, clear blue skies. temperatures responding, and usually one for the time of year, though 20s, in fact 20 celsius
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in scotland, 2a celsius in south—east england, if you shower is to end the day possible through parts of wales and south—west england. as easy into thursday, more cloud around, greater chance of things showery outbreaks of rain, there will still be some sunny spells to come. rain on thursday, tempered is a bit lower, but where it breaks out in some sunshine, still quite warm. windy weather to come at the end of the week, as this deep area of low pressure approaches the uk. it could turn quite stormy as well. this is beyond one hundred days, with me katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. our top stories... scientists ring the alarm bell, experts say we are running out of time to save the planet from the catastrophic effects of climate change. turkey requests to search the saudi consulate in istanbul, after authorities say they fear journalist jamal khashoggi was killed inside the building. coming up in the next half hour....
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brazil's far—right candidate, jair bolsonaro, has come short of winning the presidency in the first round just for a handful of votes. is there anyone who can stop him in the run off? is europe going through an identity crisis? we are in milan to talk about the rise of populism in italy. air force one was probably more interesting than usual today, with rod rosenstein accompanying president trump on his trip to florida. the deputy attorney general has been in the spotlight after a report that said he suggested secretly recording the president. but it's his oversight of the russia investigation which already places him in the crosshairs. before he departed, mr trump inisted the two have a good relationship but each week brings new revelations of russian hacking and subversive tactics. the washington post's national security correspondent greg miller has pulled together these threads in a new book titled the apprentice and hejoins us now.
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cani can i start with the title of the book, why is it called the apprentice. it is the name of the show that propelled donald trump to such fame and he arrived in the white house with little preparation in terms of government service or understanding of how government works and he saw him as an apprentice in many ways and then there is the aspect of subservience to the word and i have to say he often behaves as if he is an apprentice to vladimir putin, he emulates him and admires him. did you come to the conclusion that is the million—dollar question in researching and writing the book that the russians have something on donald trump whether it is financial or personal that would account for why donald trump views the damir putin the way he does?|j
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why donald trump views the damir putin the way he does? i am sceptical of the theory, i do not doubt that the russians have something on donald trump but when you look at the revelations of donald trump and his sex life and allegations of sexual assault in all these things that he survived politically, how would this give putin definitive leverage, i think it is more personal and i think it is that good matches his vision of what a leader should be like and how he should lead and i think he and b's the arrangement that would have, he does not have to worry about invasive prize or negative coverage we re invasive prize or negative coverage were all of these things. he just sort of, his word is law.|j were all of these things. he just sort of, his word is law. i did those closest to the president talked to him about russia because we knowjohn talked to him about russia because we know john bolton talked to him about russia because we knowjohn bolton the national security adviser is a hawk when it comes to russia, how does the box that for the president quick talk to him about the issues that should concern him? it is a traffic dunn
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terrific question and you end up with these schizophrenic administration where you have a president who is blind to all of these behaviours from russia, from these behaviours from russia, from the violence and the cruelties and the violence and the cruelties and the sanctions against human rights and so forth. but nevertheless donald trump is surrounded by people who understand this in way he does not. they try at times to work to convince them to help them see what is really happening but that has not really been successful. instead where they have had more luck is pursuing the policies and presenting them to him at the last minute and hoping they can get them through. this has worked with the sanctions of course against the attempted assassination in salisbury were his staff commends them at the last minute to go along with it, the sanctioning and the expulsion of 60 russians and fought in the final hours to keep them from undoing. we we re hours to keep them from undoing. we were talking about this earlier but it is difficult to reconcile when he think about how easy it was for him
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to talk about china at the security council the other week, he pointed the finger directly at the chinese and he will not do that with russia. and it is baffling because it would be politically advantageous for him to do so, right at the final chapter of the book is set in helsinki and there is this moment where if he had turned towards vladimir putin and saidi turned towards vladimir putin and said i know you deny doing this interfering in our election but i have my own intelligence services that say you did and we're never going to stand for that again, it would have altered the course of his presidency and alter the course in the way he is perceived by people now and perhaps even by history. thank you very much for coming in. interesting the idea that china and russia, we were talking about why point out china, we know facebook has closed down certain sites and link to ironic so we know other people are doing this but there is
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no evidence that china is doing this and ina no evidence that china is doing this and in a way you wonder whether other countries are going to start feeling that they can act with impunity now that russia has gotten away with certain things, can other countries start doing the same kind of tactics around the world. there was an extraordinary story, a bloomberg story about a little chip that the chinese put on a motherboard that came into the country. smaller than a pinhead, a grain of rice attached there by the intelligence services in china and terrifying for it those who import motherboards all around the world. all across europe in recent years we have seen the rise of anti establishment movents many of them campaigning for tighter control of their country's borders. that is one of the issues they campaign on. and that movement has grown since 2015 when more than a million people, many of them syrian refugees, arrived in europe seeking asylum. since then the arrivals numbers have fallen, but one route, across the mediterranean, is still used by migrants even though it is one of the deadliest ways to reach europe.
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and in a bid to stop them italy's populist government has been closing ports to those ships carrying migrants rescued at sea. as part of a series of reports on european identity the bbc‘s ross atkins is today in milan, in northern italy. and he joined us a short time ago. i think most people think of milan and they think of fashion and finance and not necessarily anti—establishment industries why have you chosen to go there in italy? because this is the place where the deputy prime minister of italy, really the man who is the most high profile face of the new italian government cut his teeth as a politician copied back in 2013 he took over the leadership of what was called the northern league and rebranded it. it was a party and his main goal was to separate the north of italy from the rest of it and they have changed tack, now instead of seeing rome is the enemy they are
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seeing the european union as the enemy and they are set on reshaping what it means to be european. that is why have come here and i have been talking to a man who is an mp four the party and he also knows the man very well. i put to him that they are seen as high—profile populists and i wondered if they mind. translation: of course i am really proud to be called at the populace because populists like us are people who stand up to the european union, the european union that gave us so many problems over the years, starting with the single currency the years, starting with the single currency and going all the way to the rules that will make my people who are not elected by anyone. populist means to be anti—is fabulous —— anti—establishment. we are sitting on a park bench, this is called populism, being close to the people in understanding their needs and then bringing them all the way to the top level, even to the
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european union. populist, anti—establishment, whatever you wa nt anti—establishment, whatever you want to call it, italy is not unique and we will talk later in the programme where a populace has won the first round of the election and look at sweden where populists who did very well, what is going on globally that is affecting the establishment parties and pushing them from power? there are number of things going on but at the heart of it is the idea that rather than seeing politics as left and right we should see it as a battle between ordinary people in the elite. what the lead here in italy along with the lead here in italy along with the coalition par bell partners have been effective in saying there is a financial elite, political elite which is set on changing italy and europe and not serving your interests. trying to understand whether there is any reason in that argument, iwent whether there is any reason in that argument, i went to see a man here in italy who is associated with globalisation and the current financial system. he is a former
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director of the inf and for a moment and may have looked like he may be the prime minister before the coalition was formed. i put it to him for the current financial system has in part created this populist surge. something went wrong, in the 19805. surge. something went wrong, in the 1980s. the distribution switched and what is perhaps even worse is the so—called social ladder, the thing that allows you if you are poor, you end up rich. that does not work and we need to understand why it is not working and make it work better. without this, people do not have a future and then they start believing and that is what i am concerned about. on 100 days you talk about donald trump and we should
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definitely emphasise that donald trump's success in america has inspired people here in europe just asi inspired people here in europe just as i have been reporting the last couple of days we met a number of people who like the phrase italy first with echoes of america first to like strong language on immigration and want to push back on the idea of globalisation. donald trump has inspired people that it is possible to take power in here in italy it has happened out quite for us italy it has happened out quite for us in the line, ross atkins. you can catch him on outside source as well. thank you. the donald trump effect in europe there. the far—right frontrunner to become brazil's next president says he will maintain his hardine rhetoric after winning the first round of the election on sunday. jair bolsonaro, a former army captain, secured nearly 50 million votes, just short of the outright majority needed to claim victory. he will run off against the left wing candidate, fernando haddad at the end of the month. mr bolsonaro said he hopes to return to active campaigning in the coming week, after surviving a near—fatal stabbing in the early
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part of the campaign. katy watson joins us now from sao paulo. can anyone stop him?|j can anyone stop him? i think it is going to be increasingly difficult. the next three weeks before the second round will see a ramping up of campaigning and he will be going head to head with leftist candidate and we will see the huge contrast that we are seeing in brazil between the far right and the left and that polarisation that we are seeing in brazil will be even more as six it — — accentuated brazil will be even more as six it —— accentuated as the two men are trying to win the top spot for the president at the end of the month. tell us more about where he has come from and what his deals are. he has beena from and what his deals are. he has been a congressman for nearly 30 years and what he has done in those la st years and what he has done in those last 30 years, people are a bit
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sceptical at how much he has aptly contributed to the political system but he has won millions of supporters with his hard—line approach to law and order and wants to have gun laws to tackle crime and bring back the death penalty. he also likes to emulate donald trump and wants to drain the swamp of political corruption and that is why he has become so popular because of many millions of brazilians are fed up many millions of brazilians are fed up with the left and blame the workers party which used to be led by the former president for corruption and widespread economic mismanagement in that way he has won a lot of supporters but he is a man who is hugely controversial and became known for his racist and homophobic remarks. lots of people think he is going to make great change and millions of others are deeply fearful of this candidate in
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this young democracies. the question a lwa ys this young democracies. the question always with populists are they dumb ican always with populists are they dumb i can deliver on their promises and he has made those promises on the issue of corruption. other governments have traded in brazil and have not worked out, can he do something his predecessors have not been able to. —— with populists candidate deliver on their promises. the economy as something that bothers brazilians probably the most and is one of the biggest topics on this campaign. he does not really come up with very many policies and talks about privatisation and talks about a smaller state but when you talk about the nitty—gritty, we have not really heard much about that and thatis not really heard much about that and that is the other issues. he might have these great policies or these great plans but when you have half of the population so against them because remember he may well be one of the most popular politicians but he is also one of the most hated in this debate in this race is not so
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much who the best politician is but who is the least worst because brazilians are confused about who they are going to vote for, the left orfar they are going to vote for, the left or far right they are going to vote for, the left orfar right and they are going to vote for, the left or far right and for many millions of brazilians neither candidate represents them and that is what is going to be the question going forward whether he can move brazil forward. the european commission has told bulgaria it expects a swift and thorough investigation into the rape and murder of a bulgarian journalist to clarify whether it was connected to her work. viktoria marinova, a local television presenter, was attacked while jogging in a park in ruse on the danube river border with romania on saturday. her programme, detektor, had featured two journalists investigating the alleged misuse of eu funds. twenty people have been killed in a crash involving a stretch limousine taking people to a party in the state of new york. all 18 people in the limousine died along with two pedestrians in the incident at the weekend. witnesses described seeing the car shoot across a junction and hit another car before ploughing
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into people in a car park. the governor of new york has said the vehicle failed its inspection last month and the driver wasn't properly licensed. china has confirmed that the chinese former head of interpol is being investigated for taking bribes. meng hongwei vanished after returning to his homeland from france two weeks ago. his wife revealed that her husband had sent her a dagger emoji, suggesting he was in danger. this is beyond one hundred days. still to come... is going electric, the answer to climate change, as far as cars go? we'll find out what it's like to drive one, on a daily basis. a 42 year old mother of 8 has been named as the second person who died from a suspected allergic reaction after eating a sandwich bought from pret—a—manger. celia marsh collapsed in december.
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pret a manger says it was mis—sold yoghurt which was supposedly dairy—free by a third party. but the supplier strenuously denies that. duncan kennedy reports. this was celia marsh with her husband andy on their wedding day. one of the series of photos released tonight by her family. one of the series of photos released tonight by herfamily. in the middle of the back here, she was 42 and a mother to eight children. tonight, a legal representative released this statement on behalf of the families. she was a much loved mother, daughter, sister and wife. we miss her greatly and we just want answers into how she died after eating lunch with her family. this was the type of sandwich she ate and seemingly had an allergic reaction to. she bought it at this pret—a—manger shop and bass on december 27 last year
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and bass on december 27 last year and died later that afternoon. they say it was one of their suppliers, a company that missile them the yoghurt used in that sandwich. they say they believe that the yoghurt was dairy free and they are now taking legal action against the company. but tonight the company told the bbc they have done nothing wrong. firstly i would like to say our sincerest condolences to the family and secondly the allegations made by pret—a—manger are unfounded and highly misleading. this second death comes after the case of the 15—year—old who died after eating a pret—a—manger baguette she bought at heathrow airport. after her inquest, herfamily welcomed heathrow airport. after her inquest, her family welcomed pret—a—manger‘s decision to change the labelling on its food. we have been given a stark warning today that we need to take decisive action to limit global warming.
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the changes required of our policy makers are far reaching, but they also have implications for each and every one of us. we talked about christian's experience buying an electric car earlier and more people are making the switch. our next guest is a motoring journalist who has been testing a bmw the i3 since march. there are other cars available. the fully electric model has a range of around 120 miles, although if it is fitted with an extender, it gives you another 90 miles with a gallon of fuel. kyle fortune regularly travels from his home in stratford upon avon to heathrow for work, which is 90 miles. so how does he get on? kylejoins us now from birmingham. so if we all have to make this transition and hopefully more and more of us will get into electric cars, which we be bearing in mind? it is interesting with the electorate car, it is one of the older models on the market and we
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are increasingly seeing electric ca rs are increasingly seeing electric cars with larger ranges than what the bmw itself offers and it had its battery range extended a little bit so battery range extended a little bit so it is now quoted at 160 miles but the car now does not offer the range extender which i have fallen back on a few times. what i find running it ona a few times. what i find running it on a daily basis and longerjourneys is the range that is there, stunned by the trip computer initially, 120 miles, ifi by the trip computer initially, 120 miles, if i drive it down the motorway, it will diminish the battery to the point i need to pull over and stop for 45 minutes or an hour to charge it up before i reach the airport and it makesjourneys hour to charge it up before i reach the airport and it makes journeys a little more interesting and a little bit were time—consuming. it is one of the challenges for people who are pioneering electric cars. the very good salesman who sold me mine on the weekend and he is very good clearly says you need to be a creature of habit if you're going to use one of these electric cars, if you go a to use one of these electric cars, if you goato b in use one of these electric cars, if you go a to b in the city and do the
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samejourney you go a to b in the city and do the same journey everyday, great but if you are a rep echoes around the country, would this be for you and why would it not perhaps work as you might expect? the trouble with them at the moment is the charging times and finding chargers. i have the experience of driving it around and i know where i can stop to charge the carand i know where i can stop to charge the car and journeys like this —— to the car and journeys like this —— to the studio this evening was fine, evenif the studio this evening was fine, even if i put the heater on which destroys the range somewhat, and what you will find is when you need to do those difficult journeys or the journeys where you have never been somewhere before or you do not know where you could charge, i took it into london very early in my ownership and it was a nightmare. i was driving down the motorway expecting i could stop in charge it up expecting i could stop in charge it up but my card would not work or i would have the wrong app or i had the wrong type of charger. i am prepared to take that chance but if you have your kids with you or something like that it is a nightmare. i love the way you
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described the journey as more interesting, i like that approach. i haven't the mac have understood that the electorate chargers are not uniform and i can go to a petrol station here and fill my car with petrol and know that there is petrol in any station and i have seen a lot of tesla charger points in the city and dc but not many others, why do we not have a system in place and when can we get when and where you can charge it anywhere and charge it on the same spot? i think currently and certainly in the uk that is the holy grail. with britain and the situation, some churches do not work with some charge in some networks don't work with other networks and like you say it is like turning up ata like you say it is like turning up at a fuel station that sells one brand of fuel in the then turning you away and say you cannot feel up here, that trouble is with electric ca rs here, that trouble is with electric cars you might see there is a charging point on your site nabbed and you arrive at the charging point
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to find you cannot actually use it. the other problem is you there is quite often at the busier places where people are charging on motorways and things like that you may have two or three people wishing to use the charger and they are going to be sat for an hour or an hour and going to be sat for an hour or an hourand a going to be sat for an hour or an hour and a half charging their car and you have to wait for them to vacate the spot to use it. what is the single most important thing that would change your life as an electric car driver and you can go to other people and say that the switch will be fine... the key thing happening now, within the last sort of few months is we have seen new ca rs of few months is we have seen new cars come to market and i think there is a tipping point of around 200 miles which brings the electric car into usable genuine daily driver that you can conceivably take it for a drive, that trip i go down to heathrow regularly for work, it is
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180 mile round trip and i should be able to do it with out charging and despite he drove being a large child, there are few places to charge the car there because the ca rs charge the car there because the cars may be parked overnight and it is the ideal time to charge it. there should be more joined up thinking when it comes to using these cars. have you another charge to get home? i have enough to get home. use the plug in the studio if you haven't enough. i take my hat off to you. i have just realised you could download all these different apps and men in new factors and charging points and i am going through that at the moment and the other issue is i read from the spectators reported that she had 30 miles left and you got to the service station like he was explaining and that it was not working so she had to drive another 15 miles in that one not working so she was surrounded.”
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15 miles in that one not working so she was surrounded. i could see a lot of calls to your friends coming to pick you up. i will have you on speed dial. here is a alternative to driving... elon musk‘s spacex company has successfully launched a satellite into space from california the falcon 9 rocket took an argentine satellite into orbit from vandenberg air force base, on the coast northwest of los angeles. spacex put out their own video of the event and many people shared photos of the launch, which lit up the skies over the state. the rocket‘s first and reusable stage landed successfully, marking the first west coast landing for a booster. many people thought it was a ufo because you see the raqqa going off in one direction and then in a minute you will see the booster, the first coming back down to earth. how about that. i love that. i wish i had seen on. apparently previously
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it had launched from a pad on a boat that belong to space x and guess what the name of the boat is? just read the instructions. you can do that with your electric car in this programme actually. just very quickly before you go, the name of the second russian man and he scribbled poisoning has been named, he isa scribbled poisoning has been named, he is a military doctor, and we will have more of that on the bbc coming up. —— have more of that on the bbc coming up. -- in have more of that on the bbc coming up. —— in the skripal poisoning. thank you very much for watching. there are warmer and sunnier days to come this week before a skiing in the tale of this weather story at the tale of this weather story at the end. a good deal of clout around and here are the views from earlier and here are the views from earlier and many of us stayed dried which is not the case for some areas of
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scotla nd not the case for some areas of scotland where it was a heavy and persistent rain continuing and diseases while we go into wednesday and over 200 mm of rain as a result and over 200 mm of rain as a result and have rain overnight and patcher rain elsewhere over scotland and the bulk of the england and wales will be dry, and nowhere particularly cold some spots getting down into single figures. though the rain falling through particularly northwest scotland, rather patchy elsewhere in scotland and it uses from northern ireland and it appears through northwest england, some sunshine into the afternoons of plenty of sunshine to come through wales through the end of the day. a warm day to get some sunshine and a blustery day mind you, northern half of the uk, with wins 40, 50 blustery day mind you, northern half of the uk, with wins 40,50 mph or so. of the uk, with wins 40,50 mph or so. the rain starts to edge further northward clearing where this side
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of scotla nd northward clearing where this side of scotland and leaving all of us in a warm flow of air with plenty of sunshine as well. the rain lifting away in the last of it from the western isles from wednesday morning and you can see the land here these there is hardly any crowd and that means there is clear blue sky and temperatures responding and unusually warm for the time of year, getting to the low 20s and four celsius southeast england, and the day possible for parts of wells in southwest england. there is more clout around and there are a greater chance of showery breaks of rain and it we will see some rain on thursday with temperatures being a bit lower. some sunshine but it will feel quite warm and still breezy to wendy mind you and whether to come at the end of the week as this area of low pressure approaches the uk and could
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bring a storm as well. this is bbc news i'm sophie long. the headlines at eight. scientists issue their starkest warning yet about the dangers of rising global temperatures — saying rapid and unprecedented changes are needed to avoid catastrophe if action is not taken, it would take the planet into an unprecedented climate future if we compare it to what has happened during all of human evolutionary history. jaguar land rover says it will close its solihull plant for two weeks this month — after a slump in sales to china the family of celia marsh, a second customer believed to have had a fatal allergic reaction to a pret a manger sandwich, have demanded answers over her death almost half of england's young adults can't afford to buy the cheapest homes in their area, even with enough money for a deposit and the changing face of the royal ballet —
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